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xaff

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Registered: 2009-02-26

Posts: 64

Problems with xv and radeonhd drivers

I'm having problems with playing video after migrating to radeonhd drivers. XVideo seems to be loaded, but xvinfo detects no adapters. I've tried checking out other threads, but no solutions helped.

mateusz@saturn ~ $ xvinfo
X-Video Extension version 2.2
screen #0
no adaptors present
mateusz@saturn ~ $ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i xv -n2
85-(II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
86-(II) Loading extension DPMS
87:(II) Loading extension XVideo
88:(II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
89-(II) Loading extension X-Resource
90-(II) LoadModule: "dbe"
mateusz@saturn ~ $

Here's my xorg.conf:

Section "Module"
  Load  "glx"
  Load  "dri"
  Load  "drm"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Radeon HD3850"
Driver "radeonhd"
Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "true" #needed for aiglx
Option "AccelMethod" "EXA"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Group        "video"
Mode         0666
EndSection

I've tried both current Xorg + radeonhd and the ones from testing repository and I have no idea what to do next.

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,549

Re: Problems with xv and radeonhd drivers

http://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature might help, I'm not sure.

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Problems with xv and radeonhd drivers

I don't have Xvideo either with my HD4850 and radeonhd.

Try the -ati driver.

Comparison:
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/radeon
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/radeonhd

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xaff

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Registered: 2009-02-26

Posts: 64

Re: Problems with xv and radeonhd drivers

Ati seems to fail with xvideo too and for some reason x11 playback won't resize to fullscreen properly.

Back to fglrx

Mikko777

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From: Suomi, Finland

Registered: 2006-10-30

Posts: 837

Re: Problems with xv and radeonhd drivers

Yup only usable drivers for HD**** cards are the catalyst drivers atm.

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R00KIE

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From: Between a computer and a chair

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 4,734

Re: Problems with xv and radeonhd drivers

If all you want is xv then give this a try http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24236 and you will need this too http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24235
There is no 3D acceleration at all at the moment.
I've been using this ones and xv works better than it used to work with the catalyst drivers .... maybe I was doing something wrong. My card is a HD2400 but yours should be supported too.
There is also another thing, you may need to insert the modules manually, it worked fine for me in Arch64 but in Arch32 I need to insert them manually.
I've added this to /etc/rc.local

insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/char/drm/drm.ko
insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.ko

Also don't forget to turn on DRI http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ATI … figuration

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calyce

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From: La Belle Gique

Registered: 2009-04-26

Posts: 10

Re: Problems with xv and radeonhd drivers

Thanks Rookie. It worked for me too but I had to powercycle my laptop for the changes to take effect